I wish you would attend to your own faults, and not pry into other
people's.
But I think that when we hope, we are not brave, because we are expecting
something for ourselves. Chris says that hope is prayer, and if it is
prayer, then all the time we are hoping, we are asking for something, and
it is not brave to ask for things.
Then from in front I heard sobbing--a man's sobs; no sound is quite so
dreadful.
"Ah!" muttered Mr. Treffry, "you're obstinate enough, but obstinacy isn't
strength."
It has always been my, belief that a man must neither beg anything of a
woman, nor force anything from her. Women are generous--they will give
you what they can.
Has it ever struck you that each one of us lives on the edge of a
volcano? There is, I imagine, no one who has not some affection or
interest so strong that he counts the rest for nothing, beside it.